http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/users/m/morillo/public/579.html

Dr. J. Morillo
morillo@unity.ncsu.edu
Office = Tompkins 270. Office phone =
Office Hours: Th 1-3  F 12:30-2:30

Description: We will study a variety of representative Restoration plays from the dominant genre of comedy, but also some Heroic Drama and tragedy.  We will explore works by men and women playwrights during this vibrant time for the theater, and how the theater responded to and helped shape the broader cultural contexts of the English Restoration period, from 1660 to the 17-teens. We will consider the parallel development of theories of drama by playwrights as well as critics in a time when the drama was often the center of religious, political, and aesthetic controversy. How did the theatre of this period respond to  the cultural concerns and needs of the time, including the roles of the sexes in courtship, changing conceptions of virtue and definitions of the state?

To access this free resource from off campus you must have a working unity id and password in the campus computer system. For any E Book, search under the author's name in the main NCSU catalog to link to  Early English Books Online for scans of the following complete primary texts:

Howard, Robert, Preface to the Duke of Lerma (1668)

Sheffield, John, Earl of Mulgrave An Essay Upon Poetry (1682)

Dennis, John, The Dignity and Usefulness of the Stage (1698)

OTHER ONLINE TEXTS

Dryden, John, Essay of Dramatick Poesie (1668), ed. Jack Lynch: http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/drampoet.html

Collier, Jeremy, A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (1698) excerpts:

http://www.broadviewpress.com/drama/colliershort.htm

Addison, Joseph, Cato: A Tragedy complete: http://www.constitution.org/addison/cato_play.htm

----- and Richard Steele The Tatler and The Specator (1709;;1711) http://tabula.rutgers.edu/spectator/

ELECTRONIC RESERVES via  D. H. Hill Library Reserve Room.
They are on reserve as electronic files. Works may be added to this collection over the course of the semester. The library puts all electronic reserve texts into .PDF files. That means you need the Adobe Acrobat reader to read them. The program can be downloaded for free from the library's reserve site. If you have any problem reading the online files talk to Dr. Morillo.
To access this free resource from off campus you must have a working unity id and password in the campus computer system. Starting at the library homepage  www. lib.ncsu.edu
Under Services choose Reserves
then search under instructor name  Morillo
The complete list of E RESERVE works is subject to change and is one or more pages. Each link will load a pdf file into Acrobat reader.
Works on E Reserve:

Carlson, Marvin, "The Restoration and Eighteenth Century in England,in Theories of the Theatre (1993)
Centlivre, Susannah, The Busie Body (another ed. of the complete play)
Congreve, William, "Concerning Humour in Comedy" (1695)
Dryden, John, "Of Heroic Plays" (1672)
----. "The Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy" (1679)
Farquhar, George, "A Discourse Upon Comedy" (1702) in Complete Works
Harth, Phillip, "Political Interpretations of Venice Preserv'd"
Howe, Elizabeth, "Introduction: the Restoration Theatre," in The First English Actresses (1992)
Kelsall, Malcolm, "Introductin to Venice Preser'ved"
Kinney, Suz-anne, "Confinement Shapes the Invention"
Nagler, George, Source Book in Theatrical History (in two files)
O'Neill, John. "The Rehersal," from George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham
Stayan, J. L, "The Restoration Stage" and "The Georgian Theatre" in The English Stage (1996)

Other Resources:

NCSU Electronic BOOKS

http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/  
then pick  catalog,  then the Electronic Books tab. search via author, title, or key words

The Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu   chose Literature--English--Restoration and 18th Century--Authors, Works Projects

18th-Century Studies Discussion List "Selected Readings," bibliography of current studies in the field

http://www.personal.psu.edu/special/C18/sr/sr.htm

Theatre Database

http://www.theatredatabase.com/18th_century/restoration_and_18th_century_english_dramatic_criticism.html

World of the London Theatre Project (U. Florida class projects)

http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~pcraddoc/lonmen1.html

from this, pictures of theatre life

http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~pcraddoc/pics.html

The Resotration Comedy Project

http://www.us.es/restoration/

RESEARCH RESOURCES: Books on Restoration Theater, Culture, History

• Attendance 10%
  
•  preparation for, partcipation in each class 10%
  
• Shorter comparative paper (4-6 pages) working with primary texts of plays. 15%
  
• Reveiw of contemporary critical article on play or playwright (5-6 pp) 15%
  
• Speaking requirement: can be either teaching part of class OR a dramatic performance (with brief written component) 15%
  
• Proposal for longer research paper by Nov. 2 10%
  
• Longer research paper (12-15 pages) 25%